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Original Designers Workbook

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:37:44 +0200

You can’t beat a good notebook to keep your day on track! The Graphic Clinic have created the Original Designers Workbook a notebook with designers, illustrators, architects & artists in mind. The A4 spiral bound book contains 200 pages of high quality 100% recycled paper printed with a Pantone Grey 1 custom grid. The covers are available in 5 colours: Pantone® 2995, 345, 433, 485 and 811.

You can buy a ODW at the eStore, Analogue Books in Edinburgh or the Design Museum Shop in London.

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Büro für Form

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:06:56 +0200

I came across Büro für Form somewhere this morning - I forget where - but this light caught my eye. They have some oh-so-sexy stuff that I’d like to get my hands on. Fantastic work!

Harmonie-Interieure

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:16:28 +0200

Some lovely typography/icon based wall graphics amongst others available for purchase at harmonie-interieure

Christoffer Hald

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:09:40 +0200

Excellent portfolio from Copenhagen, thanks for the email Christoffer.

Dominic Wilcox

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:26:24 +0100

Jack and Glenn will be pleased to know that Dominic Wilcox hails from Edinburgh, but more importantly, this product designer has some fantastic and witty ideas!

Chorus Rising

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:58:56 +0100

This has just landed in my inbox and made me chuckle! Mike from Chorus Rising writes, “As part of my celeb bad marriages collection you can now buy the first limited edition plate of mucca and macca…” Quality!

Seymour Powell

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:02:07 +0100

Brilliant new site for Seymor Powell. Would love to know who designed it?

via Made in England

Troika

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:20:01 +0100

The Newton Virus by Troika is a Mac ‘virus’ that turns on gravity on your desktop. Great video of it in action.

A + B Studio

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:29:01 +0100

Damn fine work from A + B, including this mug below. Also, I like the way they present website work, that’s a real neat way of doing it, one which I’ve never seen done in such a way.

Via FormFiftyFive

Ernest Perera

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:09:07 +0100

I want one of these. This and more nice product design from Ernest Perera.

Yar Rassadin

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:08:32 +0100

The creations of Yar Rassadin have been on a few design blogs over the past couple of days, and with good reason too; they’re fantastic!

Messenger/Receiver House

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:03:01 +0100

A recent project called ‘Messenger/Receiver House’ developed by Chris Knox, Colm Keller and Bastian Bischoff, students studying on the Master Programme in Design at HDK (The School of Design and Crafts at Göteborg University in Sweden) aimed to collect, distribute and analyse public opinion around factors that concern homelessness and people who are homeless.

Colm has been in touch to ask us to feature it, and we are only too happy to oblige as this project illustrates the way designers from two backgrounds can combine to do something truly unique and eye-catching which can create awareness about a social problem.

On major streets and spaces throughout the city of Gothenburg a number of small brightly coloured houses appeared, featuring provocative statements about homelessness and the homeless. At each house the public were asked to critically respond to these statements with their own messages by writing on the houses using pens provided. The houses also contained lighting which would illuminate a pictogram of a homeless person at night.

The statements, written in both English and Swedish, were created to be deliberately inflammatory so they would receive the strongest possible responses. Featuring statements such as ‘It’s a person’s own fault that they are homeless’, ‘Homeless people don’t deserve sympathy’, ‘Homeless people shouldn’t be helped with public money’ and ‘Most homeless people are addicted to drugs or alcohol’ caused the public to react strongly on one side of each argument or the other.

The team hoped that the project could in some small way help to improve communication between homeless people and people with homes, closing the mental gap that exists between these two groups. By reading other peoples statements it was hoped people may begin to question their own views about homelessness.

Designs of the Year

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:56:00 +0100

The new Brit Insurance Designs of the Year show started last week at the Design Museum, taking over from where the old Designer of the Year show left off in 2006. We went along on Saturday to take a look, and we'll tell you all about that in just a moment.

But first, a gentle rant.

The show is, as you can hardly have failed to notice, sponsored by Brit Insurance. They've stuck their name right in front of it. The awards that go with the show are sponsored by them too. They're called the Brit Insurance Design Awards. And frankly, that's just rubbish. Instead of being mutually beneficial, it's mutually detrimental. It makes the Design Museum look cheap, happy to bend over, grab its ankles and get its elegantly shaped butt branded by its corporate master; and it makes Brit Insurance look greedy and egomaniacal. Instead of making the event and awards the most important thing, they've made their sponsorship the important thing. And that doesn't make us like them much.

This is a grim trend that's been happening wherever sponsorship occurs (Carling Academy anyone?). Don't get us wrong, it's a very good thing that corporate sponsorship exists. It makes stuff happen, in bigger and better ways than would otherwise be possible. But, please, let's restore some sense of modesty, elegance and sophistication to the way it's done. Wouldn't the Designs of the Year show, as supported by Brit Insurance, sound far better? Patronage, not prostitution*.

Rant over.

The show itself is a great mix of work arranged by discipline: Architecture, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Interactive, Product and Transport. You might question some of the entries, but it's a really valuable opportunity to see what's being going on across the design spectrum in the past year. It's also great to be able to play with some of the entries, including the Nintendo Wii, Toshio Iwai and Yu Nishibori's TENORI-ON digital musical instrument, and Ross Phillips' Replenishing Body Kiosk (pictured above, being used by some kids in a much looser way than intended).

In the graphics section, we were particularly pleased to see the Butt Book nominated - it's a compendium of Butt Magazine (that link is not at all safe if you're at work), designed by Jop van Bennekom, and we've noticed it being the 'inspiration' for rather a lot of work recently.

Winners in each section, and one overall winner, will be announced in March.

* The fact that Peter Saville's "This is not a brothel There are no prostitutes at this address" sticker is one of the graphics entries feels deeply ironic.

Vary Well

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:38:45 +0100

“The amount of raw skill we were born with boggles the mind” Probably the best quote I’ve ever seen on a portfolio site!

Eye-Fi Wireless Memory Card

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:14:02 +0100

Since we’re on new gadgets how about this the Eye-Fi wireless SD card for your Digital Camera! Very handy, no more endless searching for the camera cable! Cheers to Hektor for the tip!

Touch Screen Mac

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:33:46 +0100

The Modbook — now shipping.

Playing Cards

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:33:53 +0100

I like the look of these back-to-front playing cards from Sebastian Bergne.

Printable CD Holder

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:15:51 +0100

If you navigate through this french site, you can download a printable CD holder to stick on your wall for no real reason, other than it might look good.

Freedom Of Creation!

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:11:09 +0100

Check out Freedom Of Creation.